Question

You operate a set of Compute Engine VMs running a web application. Operations reports that a snapshot schedule attached to the boot disks is not producing new snapshots, and you need to quickly confirm whether the schedule is actually executing. Using only Cloud Console, what is the fastest way to verify recent snapshot creation activity for these disks?

Accepted Answer

Open Compute Engine > Snapshots and check the creation timestamps of recent snapshots to see if they match the schedule interval.

Answer

Create a Cloud Monitoring uptime check against the VMs to detect whether the disks are reachable.

Answer

Enable the Cloud Monitoring agent on each VM and build a dashboard that plots disk I/O throughput.

Answer

Request a quota increase for persistent disk snapshots in the affected region.